HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 13.5.3.8 Persons with Criminal Backgrounds
Given the longstanding inequities in our criminal justice system, housing policies that take adverse actions against individuals with criminal backgrounds can have fair housing implications for members of protected classes who are denied or excluded from housing. Such policies may include blanket bans on admission for any person with a conviction or an arrest, or the application of “one strike” policies.495